Epic Games have finally released the 2.0 patch for Unreal Tournament 3 which was announced earlier this year. The patch weighs in at a bone-crunching 309.4 MB, and fixes an absolutely monolithic number of issues with the game, and adds a number of features.

To accompany the patch, Epic have also released the 916.1 MB Titan Pack, which adds some 16 new maps, 57 Steam Achievements, new vehicles, mutators and a bunch of other stuff, as we've detailed previously.

In addition, there is currently a "free" Steam weekend going on for Unreal Tournament 3, and should you decide you like the game, it is going cheap for the lowly sum US$11.99!

Both the patch and the Titan Pack are ready for download from the file mirror (unmetered data for Internode customers). We've also got a reminder as to what has changed with the updates, and a brief summary of the new features introduced by the Titan Pack.

Firstly - a disclaimer - for those of you who have the installed the game via Steam - it would seem that the Steam content server hasn't been updated as of yet with the updates, which means that you are able to "force" a manual update of the install by downloading both the patch and the Titan Pack and running the files.


This is done by first going into your Steam client, right clicking on Unreal Torunament 3 in you "games list", and then selecting "do not automatically update this game". Then, close Steam, run both the files (the patch and the Titan Pack) then restart steam.

There are reports that this will "bug out" the start of games, but a few folks on the UT Forums have discovered that deletion of the *.ini files from "/My Documents/.../unreal tournament 3/utgame/config" will "fix" the bug that now sometimes occurs at the start of matches.

The main changes that have been introduced by the patch and the Titan Pack are as follows:

SUMMARY OF MAJOR FEATURES:

• Major enhancements to Server Browser
• Visual and menu flow overhaul for improved useability of user interface.
• Significant AI improvements, especially in vehicle gametypes.
• Client-side demo recording support
• Improved networking performance.
• Midgame map, game type, and mutator voting support
• Award system using Steam Achievements
• Improved mod support

For a more complete changelist, check out our previous coverage of the update, or have a read through the change-list itself on the download page for the patch.

The 2.0 patch isn't where it all ends though, with the Titan Pack introducing the following:

16 environments - 4 Warfare, 3 vCTF, 6 Deathmatch, and 3 CTF maps – that are new to the PC and PS3 versions Three bonus pack maps, CTF-Face, CTF-Searchlight and DM-Morbias (with preview pics) The namesake Titan mutator, which lets players overwhelm opponents as a 15 foot tall titan, or crush them as a 30 foot tall Behemoth Greed and Betrayal, two gametypes that breed new-found fervor throughout the competitive UT3 arena Two powerful weapons, the Stinger Turret and Eradicator Cannon artillery Two valuable deployables, the X-Ray Field and Link Station The Slow Field power-up, a portable version of the Slow Field deployable Stealthbender, a new vehicle that carries two spidermine trap deployables, one EMP mine, and one each of the new Link Station and X-Ray Field deployables Two new characters, Nova and Kana (Liandri and Ronin, respectively) 57 awards attainable as Steam Achievements and PS3 Trophies Broad improvements for PC and PS3: Significant AI enhancements, especially in vehicle gametypes; networking performance upgrades; greatly improved menu flow and UI usability; better mod support Client-side demo recording, highly improved Server Browser, a new maplist system, plus mid-game mutator and gametype voting functionality for PC High demand PS3 features including PS3 Trophy support, two-player split-screen support, and mod browsing

So - what are you waiting for? Go forth, download, and conquer!